Hip Resurfacing at Surface HippyPosted on by Patricia Walter
U.S. FDA to Collect Adverse Event Data Despite UK Recall of Metal Hip Implants
http://fdanews.com/newsletter/article?issueId=14568&articleId=135224
Quality problems with metal-on-metal (MoM) hip replacement systems, like
Johnson & Johnson (J&J)’s ASR devices, may not be as widespread as UK data
indicates, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) says. National Joint
Registry of England and Wales data, which last year showed high revision rates
for two ASR hip resurfacing systems, led to a UK medical device alert